It doesn’t take a tremendous amount of imagination to look at the remainder of the District 18-5A girls basketball race as a countdown. With five games and an open date remaining for each school, defending champion Georgetown and arch-rival East View are hoping to tick off four […]
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Georgetown coach Rhonda Farney was candid in her postmortem of her Lady Eagles’ 46-42 loss to arch-rival East View in an 18-5A game Friday night on the Patriots’ playing surface that left the two teams tied for the district lead at 5-1 at the midpoint of the […]
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“If” may be the biggest little word in our systems of vocal and written communication. It can play the game of life both ways — either positive or negative. Georgetown and East View will play the “if” game from different perspectives at 6 p.m. Friday when the […]
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The eighth-ranked Georgetown Lady Eagles celebrated Senior Night –Senior Midday — Saturday with a near-school-record-breaking performance against Bastrop Cedar Creek at Eagle Gym. Coach Rhonda Farney’s Lady Eagles claimed a 71-7 victory over their District 18-5A rivals in a contest that was rescheduled from Friday night to […]
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After the first four of 14 playing dates in District 18-5A girls basketball, including two open dates for each of the seven teams, nothing is certain unless uncertain can claim the same definition as its prefix-less root. True, the eighth-ranked Georgetown Lady Eagles stand atop the standings […]
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It definitely wasn’t the typical Central Texas basketball trip — impromptu snowball fights, senior McCall Hampton fishing windowpane-sized pieces of ice out of a more-than-half-frozen creek in the shadows of the red cliffs of Sedona and players, coaches and parents braving ice patches for the best possible […]
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A considerable amount of water will flow under an indeterminate number of bridges before the 13th-ranked Georgetown Lady Eagles return to the District 18-5A race on Tuesday, Jan. 7, at Manor. Coach Rhonda Farney’s Lady Eagles, now 14-6 on the season and a co-leader with Hutto in […]
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In 1971, country singer Jerry Reed recorded a song called “When you’re hot, you’re hot” and those lyrics describe the Georgetown Lady Eagles’ drive to the Class 4A State Girls Basketball Championship during the 2012-2013 season. After a 4-3 start, coach Rhonda Farney’s Lady Eagles lit a […]
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Length is the determining factor in such athletic disciplines as the shot put, discus, javelin, hammer and horizontal jumps (long and triple) and that also can extend to basketball where skilled length can be a crucial element, if the scale is tipped too far in one direction […]
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Crunch time can have a little in common with lunch time — athletic teams can implode to defeat or explode to victory. It’s kind of like attacking a lunch of aging canned potted meat or enjoying a more-satisfying and tasty repast such as fresh gourmet lasagna or […]
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